Why Dragon Age is Fundamentally Better Than Mass Effect (Spoilers!!!)

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SvennoJ said:

Dragon Age: Origins is my favorite this gen. The choices and origin stories were really well done.
Dragon Age 2 had good story too, but there were some forced parts to get the diverging story lines back on the same track. Understandable since it would have been a lot more difficult to keep all different decisions going then simply have a different faction fight by your side as at the end of Origins.
The game play was a big disappointment though in DA2, recycled dungeons and spawning waves of opponents. That better not be in DA3. Still I completed 3 playthroughs to see all the different choices play out.

Mass Effect 1 was great too. I didn't like it as much as DA:O. Probably since I have been reading sci-fi since as long as I can remember it all felt a bit simplistic.
Mass Effect 2 was disappointing, I wanted the story of the reapers to go on, get to know more of their history and origins and what happened during the past purges. Instead it was a collection of character stories. The gameplay was also a step back compared to the first, although not as bad a step as DA:O to DA2.
I haven't played ME3 yet, the demo put me off from buying it.

I agree that the DA series has a far better moral choice system. With Mass Effect I never felt compelled to try out the different choices, instead I simply went the paragon route.

The demo was bad. I almost didn't buy the game after playing it. But the game is pretty cheep now if you want to jump in.